{"id":860928,"date":"2026-06-11T23:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860928\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:26:41","slug":"tennis-players-banned-from-bringing-their-dogs-to-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860928\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis players banned from bringing their dogs to Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tennis stars at Wimbledon<\/a> will be unable to bring their dogs onto site despite many players now travelling with their pets. <\/p>\n

French Open<\/a> champion Mirra Andreeva<\/a> recently celebrated on court with her coach Conchita Martinez\u2019s puppy Luna <\/a>after winning her first grand slam title at Roland Garros. World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> also celebrated with her puppy Ash after winning the Miami Open, while Marta Kostyuk, Anastasia Potapova and Anna Kalinskaya were among the other players to bring their dogs into player areas at the French Open. <\/p>\n

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The French Open even employed two dedicated dog walkers as part of its player support services, as well as sitters to look after the pets when their owners were playing matches. Pets can offer emotional support and companionship for players during long and often stressful tournaments, with some tour events also now accommodating them on site. <\/p>\n

Wimbledon, however, only permits service dogs and search dogs to enter the grounds, with their policy communicated to the players before the start of this year\u2019s tournament. <\/p>\n

The pets who are currently travelling in Europe would have to remain at home during the day, but Wimbledon chief executive Sally Bolton didn\u2019t foresee the policy being an issue. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe only dogs that we permit on site are service dogs and those security and search dogs,\u201d Bolton confirmed. \u201cWe’re in constant communication with the players and we don’t anticipate that being a problem, but that\u2019s our policy and it always has been.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"ArynaAryna Sabalenka celebrated her Miami Open win with her dog Ash (Getty)<\/p>\n

Wimbledon, meanwhile, revealed that Andy Murray\u2019s statue will be delivered by 2027, the 150th anniversary of the Championships. <\/p>\n

The All England Club also confirmed the arrival of \u2018VAR-style\u2019 video review and expressed confidence in their electronic line calling system, which malfunctioned last year and missed three calls in one game. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere was an issue last year that was rectified and the review was undertaken during last year’s Championships, Bolton said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe will always test our systems, every single system we have as we go into the Championships, but we’re confident that that issue was in fact rectified last year, so certainly we’ll be going into this year.\u201d <\/p>\n

Visual indicators to complement live electronic line calling will also be introduced, showing out and fault calls on scoreboards across all courts during the main draw and qualifying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":860929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[48],"tags":[14450,2477,351174,6561,1002,25259,351173,24655,217917,157530,106706,1005,351172,61598,281476,3092,1926,62,1464,67,132,68,2969,16966],"class_list":["post-860928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-adult","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-butch-buchholz-trophy","tag-celebration","tag-color-image","tag-cori-gauff","tag-day-12","tag-dog","tag-florida-us-state","tag-gulf-coast-states","tag-hard-rock-stadium","tag-horizontal","tag-individual-event","tag-miami-gardens","tag-miami-masters","tag-photography","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-women"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116734066093554329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}